posted 03-14- 02:42 PM               

I appreciate all the work you've done for the Historical Night of the Week.

But,I have a geniune concern with taking the HUD OFF. Its came to light in other disussions on this board,that the concept of switching HUD OFF is fully compromised by the Padlock Viewing System.

Its no secret that Clouds ON and HUD OFF is fully intended to add Historical/Realism flavor to the dogfight by concealing all aircraft to Positive Spotting/Id'ing,thru a host of obstacles such Clouds,blindspots of your airframe and Situational Awareness.

Padlock in its current state fully compromises this desired atmosphere of HUD OFF and Clouds ON.

So,until we can get a check box for Padlock OFF for the hosting options, we might as well leave it on in order to promote balanced and fair play.

posted 03-14- 03:15 PM               

In practice, pretty much any aircraft forces you to choose between looking through the windscreen or looking at the instruments. Since the artwork only reflects this phenomenon for certain aircraft, it seems to me that it's only fair to leave the HUD enabled.

Can the icons, or "targetstate" or "ID" or whatever it's called, be turned off? I think it's pretty hard to keep track of a target without that little box thingie

posted 03-14- 03:49 PM               

I definatly know what you mean. I personally use HUD all the time. Knowing what a touchy issue this HUD thing is. I'm really not going to touch this.

I really have to let the poll speak for itself.

I will post another one asking the same question.

If anyone wants to post an argument for one way or another then i will do that.

All the guys on the HUD on fence get together and all the guys on the HUD off fence get together and write somthing up.

HEHEHE

posted 03-14- 04:51 PM               

There's no way to turn off the padlock so that will still need to be left alone. I think we need to make it as realistic as possible with in the limits of the game right now.

I've tossed a few idea's to Spanky about the setup and if he likes everything then i'm sure he'll post the ROE.

Razer

posted 03-14- 05:02 PM               

We can just say people with smaller monitors have not so good eye sight.

posted 03-14- 05:35 PM               

Yep i use a 15" monitor at 800x600 so that limits me a bit.

I really think that even though some people might call padlock unfair that there is still good reason to not have hud. Padlock can find a target but your not exactly going to cycle through them.

What do you guys think of agreeing to turn off see enemy aircraft on map?

Remember until we see some code changes alot of this stuff will be based on trust.

posted 03-14- 05:38 PM               

Anyways, not so fun with hud on either.

posted 03-14- 08:24 PM               

Yeah tail I must admit i do that, but only because everyone knows they can brag if they take you down.

posted 03-14- 10:10 PM               

now thats a thought. haha Ofcouse if thats happening then your comrades should beable to get at them ja?

"Just because your not paranoid doesn't mean their not after you"

posted 03-14- 11:35 PM               

I don't need to know who is flying the plane...just a designator of friend or foe.

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posted 03-15- 04:01 AM               

Thats just it, with HUD OFF so goes the ID tags OFF.

The game needs some code work to help us fine tune things.

If padlock is ON,then ID tags need to be ON.

But, once in awhile,some of us would like the challenge of finding our own aircraft and ID'ing them on our own,while all others in the same mission,flew under the same exact pretense.

This game comes closer to that reality than any other.And, thats a step closer to Historical Combat.

I don't wish to fly like this that often, just once a week would be a blast.Seperating the hud into...

Overhead Hud (speed,alt,direction,g's)

Ammo Counter

ID tags

Target Map

And, giving a Padlock OFF check box till such a time Padlock could be fixed,if its even possible at all?

posted 03-15- 10:56 AM               

Therefore, can a custom keyboard inp. file be created which prevents turning them on (kills the appropriate key)? And a custom ini. file created which sets these items to "Off"?

Then, could these custom files then be loaded as a par.data file and be required for "historic night" just like PlanePak 5.3 is required to fly online?

posted 03-15- 01:23 PM               

So far, I have never accomplished this, but going offensive against TS is preferrable to losing site of him and going for another. Lately I've had the opportunity a couple of times to fly wing for Tail and pick off those that go after him